1/22 James 2 says WORD WORKS, never you!

Watch fullscreen in HD. 'Faith': is it THE faith, or YOUR faith? THE faith is James' topic. ITS works, never yours.

So only due to ITS work can you be crowned at the Bema (1:12), same idea as for Abraham's MATURATION AWARD, Friend of God (2:22-23).

So this is not about salvation, but about how the Implanted Word in you, creates those 1 Cor3 gold (etc.) AWARDS.

Whole playlist off-Youtube: http://www.brainout.net/SatStrat2.htm#James2 .

Jas 1:1-1-4. Context: BELIEVER MATURATION. James' Rhetorical Style A (see below), how "faith" means WORD BELIEVED & in you. IT doing the works, not you.

For as you'll see in this video series, James' letter is addressed to those already SAVED (1:1-2); so he writes about how you get CROWNED at the Bema -- by means of The Word in you (1:3, "faith" first means BELIEVED WORD, aka "passive use of pistis" in theology). The True Wealth of Word Working In You (James 1:3-12, 13-18, 21-26) PROFITS you so much, your soul becomes king-sized, and hence you undergo testing (1:3, letter's theme); so when the Word in You proves valid, God crowns you (1:12). So, you INHERIT a subkingdom (1:12, all of Chapter 2), rather than merely being IN God's Kingdom forever.

So James writes about SPIRITUAL MATURATION, not salvation. He does this by a four-fold rhetorical tracking style. You yourself can see he:

A) Shows "faith" means WORD BELIEVED, not your act of faith, beginning in James 1:3.

B) Tracks "the" in Greek (called "definite article"). He cleverly removes or inserts "the", to show the difference between GOD's works & your own. This is a common Bible rhetorical style, so is worth learning. Here, it begins in James 1:3 & continues thru end of Chap 2.

C) Metaphorically begs the question of "true riches" (Lord's phrase in Gospels). James starts this witty parallel to the crown you're being tested to receive, with James 1:3's Greek dokimion -- the noun means to test a gem or metal for genuineness (people counterfeited gems & coins, so one had to test them). For it's a question of what word is in you: God's, or your own? (Genuine Word is gold silver precious stones in 1Cor3 so Paul plays off James.)

D) Will favor the True Riches of The Word over material poverty or wealth -- theme of Chapter 2, which James began in 1:9-10.

Download this Word doc of Chaps 1 and 2. It will help you see the Greek quickly. For it color codes the A-D, in both Greek & NASB, so you can track his letter: http://www.brainout.net/JAMES1-2INGREEK.RTF . That doc is used in the last 12 videos of this series. Download its Greek fonts here: http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html .

Abraham favored what works The WORD produced in him -- hence the "Friend of God" MATURATION Inheritance Title. For Abraham was already saved back in Genesis 15:6, 25 years prior. So the Word Works by the Spirit, without which you are carnal (2:26); and IT works post-Salvation, to save your soul from all your pre-salvation thinking; so like Abraham, you are caused to Believe In Word so strongly, God can take away what matters most to you -- but you still BELIEVE in Him. That's the test to pass, for crowning.

So James 2 is on True Wealth Of Bible In You, what IT does to you: not, on you doing anything. Of course, The Word won't abide in you, work in you, profit you -- if you didn't learn and believe it. :) So James reams out the Jewish Believers who had the Word in their mouth memorized, as was their custom -- but they weren't BELIEVING in it. Paul levies the same criticism, in the later Romans 10:1-10.

For, said in James1:18, we are God-produced fruit -- NOT what we do; James thus invokes Isaiah 53:10-12.

Paul, Peter, Jude, Book of Hebrews and finally John, all frequently allude to or quote, James' themes. Fruit is TEACHING, Matt7, whether good or bad. Fruit is Thinking, Galatians 5 being the Spirit-produced THINKING. For our souls were paid for by Christ's Thinking, "bedato yatsdiq" clause in Isaiah 53:11's Hebrew.

The Word implanted in Christ, made Him BECOME the Truth, by means of which His Soul PAID for us (Isa 53:11); so this Truth is shared out like booty among Church, James 2, Romans 12:1-3, Ephesians 3:15-19, Eph4:13 (the goal for Church maturation & hence Rapture), 2Pet3:18.

So Word Believed, Works. IT works, not you. IT produces, not you. IT is true profit, not worldly wealth or poverty. IT makes you mature, IT makes you 'approved' for king-sized maturation & hence from IT you INHERIT a kingdom (1:12) if you keep abiding in The Word. Learning it. Believing it. Then you are a 'doer' of The Word, James 1:22-23. Then what happened to Abraham, James 2:22, happens to you: for the Word works ON faith. Greek verb sunergew is intransitive. So Abraham cannot do anything. But the Word IN Him, makes the intransitive, fruitful, just as in Romans 8:28 (same verb).

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[jashbagabaldo]

This is what you call proper exegesis.

[brainouty]

@jashbagabaldo Do you think the Colonel would have liked it? I tried to follow his methodology from the James 4 series. :)

[piszczeck]

Good deal, brainouty!

[brainouty]

@piszczeck You wouldn't know if it was good or not, since you can't read the Greek, either. Another KJVO pretender.

[piszczeck]

@brainouty How interesting that you found it necessary to be so nasty. I believe in looking up the Greek & Hebrew word definitions & verb tenses, & I do that several times per week.

[brainouty]

@piszczeck Aha, so you now lie like edwardpf123. That's fine. You say one thing here, and talk quite differently elsewhere. Enjoy being a hypocrite. And you needn't send me PMs saying the same thing as you say in your comments. But you do need to watch what you say to others, so you won't get caught. BYE.

[brainouty]

@edwardpf123 Same post, because you didn't understand the video.  Pretender!

[rpavich]

Brain,

I understand what you're saying now...thanks for clarifying.

bob

[brainouty]

In short, the Calvinists mistake WHEN and TO WHOM the gift of faith is given. It is given to EVERYONE at physical birth, so anyone, elected or not, can be saved. Those who will use the faith God gave, are elected.

In short, there are TWO elections: one to create the human being, which God personally does at birth; and anyone who will use the God-given faith at that birth is ELECTED to have the second birth, since the election is conditioned on CHRIST, not on us. :)

Very simple to fix. :)

[brainouty]

rpavich, that faith is a gift no one sane disputes.

However, Calvinists maintain that God must give you the faith AFTER He elects you to be saved, misreading the gender and singular of houtos in Ephesians 2:8-9. Weird thing is, Calvin himself made that mistake, though he read the verse correctly, as I show from his own writings in my Calve Islam 5 (four-parts) videos.

So that accounts for the mixup in Calvinism, ever since. Maybe one day someone will correct it. :)

[rpavich]

brainouty,

my mistake, pistis sorry. I was just agreeing that faith is a gift not a "work" sorry for the confusion.

For the record; I don't know of any Calvinists (myself included) that believe that faith as a "merit" or a work or any of that, in fact being that Calvinists are strict Monergists...how could any of them believe that faith is a work or something you do that merits a reward?

Anywhoo....I was just agreeing with you but didn't word it correctly...sorry..